Category Archives: Toronto

A Review of Farzana Doctor’s Six Metres of Pavement: A Moving Novel about Chosen Family

Posted on August 29, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

I bought and started reading Farzana Doctor’s second novel Six Metres of Pavement with specific and high expectations: not only has it just been shortlisted for the 2012 Toronto Book award, it was named one of Now Magazine’s top ten books … Continue reading →

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New Stories by Mariko Tamaki and Zoe Whittall; Plus, Queer Feminist Read Dating in Toronto!

Posted on August 19, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

Looking for some great, free, short reads by two of Canada’s best (queer women) authors? Mariko Tamaki recently had a short story published in the journal Joyland: it’s called “The Convicted”–intriguing, eh? Written in a rambling, spoken-kind of style, the … Continue reading →

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A Collection at Once Tough and Tender: A Review of Kristyn Dunnion’s The Dirt Chronicles

Posted on July 27, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

In The Dirt Chronicles, Kristyn Dunnion writes brilliant, moving stories about a diverse crowd: anarchist punks, dumpster-diving freegans, a First Nations lesbian teenager, queer brown kids in foster care, trans sex workers, middle-aged ostensibly straight men with intense homoerotic cross-cultural … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Eccentric Love and Self-Discovery in New Orleans: A Review of Marnie Woodrow’s Spelling Mississippi

Posted on July 23, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

Marnie Woodrow’s 2002 novel Spelling Mississippi begins with an extraordinary event: Cleo, a Canadian in her late twenties visiting New Orleans, witnesses a striking older woman jump headfirst into Mississippi river in the middle of the night, wearing full evening … Continue reading →

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A Review of Karen X. Tulchinsky’s Love Ruins Everything: A Failed Lesbian Camp Melodrama

Posted on July 17, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

I’m not quite sure what I was expecting when I picked up Karen X. Tulchinsky’s first novel Love Ruins Everything (2000), but it certainly wasn’t what I imagined.  Let’s get this straight (or should I say queer, since if this … Continue reading →

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